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		<h2>Privacy Policy</h2>
		<p><strong>Privacy Policy</strong></p>
		<p>This Privacy Policy describes what information RatingBay and certain third parties gather,
		how we collect it, our information sharing practices, how users may change the way their information is collected and more.
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		<p><strong>What we collect:</strong></p>
		<p><strong>Part 1-<em>Personal Information</em></strong></p>
		<p>Personal Information generally means information which might reasonably be used to specifically identify you and may include information such as your name,
		 address, age, credit card details, email and phone number. </p>
		<p>Several of the services that we offer require registration as a condition of use.
		We may also receive personal information about you from other sources and add it to the information you have provided to us.</p>
		<p>Please note that RatingBay is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the discussions in our forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms,
		or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile or other areas that allow users to upload or post content.
		We discourage users from posting personally identifiable information in this fashion, and any personally identifiable information you post to these areas is not covered by this Policy.
		You can change your publicly available information at any time via your profile page.</p>
		<p><strong>Part 2-</strong> <strong><em>Other Information We Collect:</em></strong></p>
		<p><em>Web Beacons</em> are electronic files that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies.
		 When you receive email messages or newsletters from us, we may use web beacons,
		 customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more
		 focused e-mail communications or other information.</p>
		<p><em>Cookies</em> are small text files that are placed on your hard disk by a Web page server.
		Cookies contain information that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
		Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Like many other web sites,
		RatingBay sites use cookies to enable you to sign in to our services and to help personalize your online experience.
		We may use a cookie to identify members so they do not have to re-enter a user ID and password when they wish to download a utility,
		post to a discussion, or sign into an account. As another example, cookies can be used to control the number of times you see advertisements,
		like pop-ups. By allowing us to better understand how users interact with the site over time, cookies can also help us improve your experience
		and deliver more relevant content to you. Cookies may be created directly by our sites for these purposes, or by third-party companies operating on our behalf.</p>
		<p><em>Pixel Tags, </em>also known as clear gifs, beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, are a method for passing information
		from the user's computer to a third party Web site. Used in conjunction with cookies, RatingBay may use pixel tags to improve our understanding of site traffic,
		visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns. Pixel tags are also used as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement,
		 and are sometimes used in conjunction with small Javascript-based applications. We may also implement pixel tags provided by other companies for
		 the same purpose. We use clear gifs in our HTML based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients.</p>
		<p><em>IP Addresses</em> are a unique string of numbers that identifies each computer attached to the Internet.
		We use IP Addresses to analyze trends, administer our web sites, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
		IP addresses that we collect are sometimes linked to personally identifiable information. We use registration and email addresses that you provide together with
		IP Addresses and other information we collect as described in this policy, to understand our customer base and to market services and products to our customers.</p>
		<p><em>Third Parties.</em> To improve the quality of the some of our services, we may supplement the information we collect with information from third parties.
		 We may also collect your user ID and/or user name associated with that third-party service, or any information you have made public in connection with that service
		 or which the third party shares with us.</p>
		<p><strong>What We Provide to Third Parties:</strong></p>
		<p><em>Statistical Reports and Mailing Lists  </em>The aggregate statistics that describe our online audience, which are often based on the information
		you provide when you subscribe, register, or browse our sites, help us sell advertising and otherwise publicize RatingBay and our brands.
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		<p><em>Email Deployment, Data Analysis E-Commerce and Other Services  </em>We provide customer lists, email addresses and other information to third party companies
		and contractors who provide us with specialized services, such as email message deployment, merge-purge (identifying and removing duplicate addresses),
		subscription fulfillment, and customer support and service, research, statistical analysis, data and website hosting and other data and transaction processing.
		These companies work on our behalf and we do not provide our lists or other data to them for their own, permanent use. Those service providers will be permitted to
		 obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They should also maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using
		  it for any other purpose.</p>
		<p><em>Co-Branded Sites and Services </em>When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a service or site partner of RatingBay),
		or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, you grant us permission to pass the information collected back to that service or site partner.
		Use of your information by such partners is subject to their privacy policies as well as ours.</p>
		<p><strong>What RatingBay does with the Information it Collects</strong></p>
		<p><strong>Personal Information. </strong>How we use personal information is described in the Section <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">
		What We Provide to Third Parties</span>.</em></p>
		<p><strong>Emails.  </strong>We use email addresses to send offers of services or products (and as set forth in the Section
		<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What We Provide to Third Parties</span></em>). Any recipient will be able to unsubscribe from receiving these emails.</p>
		<p><strong>Other Information: Ad Serving and RatingBay. </strong>At times we display ads both on our network of owned and operated web sites and on
		non-RatingBay web sites. When you visit one of our web sites or view ads that we serve off of our network elsewhere on the Internet, you may see multiple
		 kinds of ads, such as text ads next to search results and graphical ads shown on web pages. Sometimes these ads are based on the content of the page on which
		 they appear. Other times these ads are generated by matching the ad to your interests as inferred from your browsing activities collected online. Either way,
		 RatingBay tries to show you relevant ads, and to do so, we may use information we know or receive about you like your gender, location or interests.</p>
		<p><em>Interest-based Ads:</em> We use cookies, Javascript, pixel tags and other technology to collect information about your visit
		to our sites and other third party partner websites that we do not own or operate but with whom we have agreements.  We analyze what pages you visit on our sites
		and the third party sites, what products or services you view, and whether you view or click on ads that are shown to you. We use this information to send you interest
		based ads. All such data is also collected anonymously, and is aggregated with other data we collect and/or similar data collected by partners to create segments,
		groups of users and certain general interest categories or segments that we have inferred based on (a) demographic or interest data, and a general geographic location
		derived from your IP address, (b) the pages you view and links you click when using our sites and services and those of our partners, and/or (c) the search terms you
		enter when using certain search services. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant
		to your interests.</p>
		<p><strong>We store page views, clicks and search terms used for ad personalization targeting separately from your contact information or other data that directly
		 identifies you (such as your name, e-mail address) which we obtained as described above under <em>Personal Information</em> and in some situations we combine the
		 two sets of data.</strong></p>
		<p>We will engage third party providers to assist with the collection, storage and segmentation of this Online Data; and the providers are required to maintain
		the confidentiality of this information. These efforts do not result in the collection of personally identifiable information such as name or address;
		and we do not intentionally collect data that we consider to be sensitive such as health or medical information. This data is not sold or transferred to any third party.
		Except as may be set forth elsewhere in this policy, this Online Data is retained for not more than 180 days after which it shall expire except in certain situations
		when the same user subsequently visits one of our sites or a partner's site in which event the 180 day period will commence again.</p>
		<p><em>To allow other users to find you.</em> In order to locate My IGN Members that a user may already know in the physical world and/or want to
		get to know in the online world, we allows users to search for members using information the user already knows, such as username, full name, or gamer profile,
		and identifies users matching that search information.</p>
		<p><strong><em>How You Can Change or Control what is Collected:</em></strong></p>
		<p><em>Cookies.</em> Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on a
		case-by-case basis.  You may stop or restrict cookies on your computer or purge them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences.
		If you would prefer that we not collect anonymous data that may be used to help determine which advertisements to serve you, opt out by clicking this icon
		<p>However, if you 'turn off', purge or disable cookies, although you may still use our websites, you may not be able to use all of the features, functions or
		services available on our websites. </p>
		<p><em>Pixel Tags.</em> You can disable pixel tags by changing your browser settings to omit images and disable Javascript;
		or there are commercial software packages available that can omit pixel tags and most advertisements.</p>
		<p><em>Updating Your Registration Information. </em>You can correct or change the information collected during site registration at any time at the profile page
		links shown below or by sending email to the addresses shown below. Please allow five to ten business days for corrections or changes to be publicly displayed or
		implemented throughout our systems.</p>
		<p><em>Security</em>. We believe we use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose to our websites
		secure and to only release this information to third parties that share our commitment to privacy. However, we cannot guarantee there will not be
		a breach and we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any third parties.</p>
		<p><em>Children.</em><strong> </strong>RatingBay web sites are not intended for use by children, especially those under 13. No one under age
		13 should provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums, and chats. Minors under the age of 18 are prohibited from
		making purchases on our sites. If, notwithstanding these prohibitions, your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion
		areas, consequences may occur that are not intended for children (e.g., they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties).</p>
		<p><em>Links to Other Sites. </em>RatingBay web site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may
		be different from ours.  We do not have control over the information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
		You should consult the privacy policy of these other sites to learn how your privacy is protected.</p>
		<p><em>Compliance with Law and Other Terms.</em><strong> </strong>Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to release information
		concerning any user of our sites or services when we have grounds to believe that the user is in violation of
		our <strong>Terms of Use</strong> or other published guidelines or engages in
		(or we have grounds to believe is engaging in) any illegal activity, and to release information in response to court and governmental orders,
		other enforceable requests from government entities, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and otherwise as required by law. We also may release
		information about users when we believe in good faith that such release is required to protect the rights, property, safety or security of RatingBay,
		 any of our users or the public, or to respond to an emergency.</p>

		<p><em>International.</em> RatingBay operates websites hosted in the United States and, depending on your country of residence,
		the submission of personally identifiable information to our sites may involve some transfer of personal information to the United States.
		You understand and consent to having any personal information you provide transferred to and processed in the United States.
		You should be aware that privacy laws in the United States may not provide protections equivalent to those of your country of residence.</p>
		<p><em>Changes to the Privacy Policy</em> We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and all changes will be effective at the time we post them.
		If we believe there is a significant change, we may indicate on our sites that our Privacy Policy has changed. The then-posted version of the Privacy Policy
		supersedes all prior versions. Your continued access to or use of any of our sites shall be deemed your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.</p>

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